Leonard Stein

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Leonard David Stein (born December 1, 1916 in Los Angeles , † June 23, 2004 in Burbank (Los Angeles County) ) was an American musicologist , pianist and conductor who particularly promoted new music on the American west coast. The professor at the University of Southern California was the director of the Schönberg Institute there and was considered one of the experts in the work of Arnold Schönberg , whose assistant he was for more than ten years.

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Stein studied piano with the Busoni student Richard Buhlig at Los Angeles City College , and from 1935 on he studied composition and music theory with Schönberg at the University of Southern California and then at the University of California, Los Angeles (BA: 1939, MM: 1941 , MA: 1942). From 1939 Stein worked as Schönberg's assistant, from 1942 as his personal assistant. On the one hand, he was involved in the world premieres of Schönberg's Phantasy for violin with piano accompaniment op.47 and the Chamber Symphony op.38B. On the other hand, he supported Schönberg in working on his manuscripts. After Schönberg's death, he completed four of the theoretical writings that he could no longer complete and in 1975 even presented an expanded version of the second edition of Schönberg's Style and Idea . He also arranged some compositions by Schönberg.

Stein taught since 1946 at various colleges and at the California Institute of the Arts , where La Monte Young , Terry Jennings , John King and Dean Drummond were among his students. He received his doctorate in 1965 on the performance of twelve-tone and serial music on the piano; the work contained analyzes of central piano works by Schönberg, Anton Webern , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez . Stein played a key role in founding the Arnold Schönberg Institute in Los Angeles and headed it from 1974 to 1991.

Due to his outstanding knowledge of new music, Stein also made a name for himself as an interpreter and as the organizer of the Encounter Series concert series in Pasadena (California) and the Piano Spheres in Los Angeles. As a pianist he played chamber music works by Schönberg and Hindemith alongside those by John Cage . When Donald Erb Reconnaissance he could be heard on the synthesizer.

As a Schoenberg specialist, he was valued internationally as a lecture guest and, until the last years of his life, frequently lectured in Europe; Stein's personality was also captivating because of its charm and wit.

Fonts

as an author
  • 1963: "The Performer's Point of View." Perspectives of New Music 1 (2): 62-71.
  • 1963: "New Music on Mondays." Perspectives of New Music 2 (1): 142-50.
  • 1965: "The Performance of Twelve-Tone and Serial Music for the Piano." Los Angeles: University of Southern California (Diss.)
  • 1978: "From Inception to Realization in the Sketches of Schoenberg." In International Schönberg Society: Report on the 1st Congress of the International Schönberg Society: Vienna, 4. – 9. June 1974 (edited by Rudolf Stephan), pp. 213-27. Publications of the International Schönberg Society 1. Vienna: Lafite.
  • 1986: "Schoenberg and 'kleine Modernsky'." In Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist, edited by Jann Pasler, 310–24. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520054035
  • 1987: "Busoni e Schonberg: op.11 n. 2 come emblema di un rapporto." In La trascrizione Bach e Busoni: atti del Convegno internazionale (Empoli-Firenze, 23-26 ottobre 1985) (ed. By Talia Pecker Berio ), Pp. 105-28. Quaderni della Rivista italiana di musicologia 18. Florence: LS Olschki. ISBN 9788822235350
as editor or editor
  • 1963: Arnold Schoenberg: Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint . London: Faber and Faber. Reprinted New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964.
  • 1967: Arnold Schoenberg: Fundamentals of Musical Composition , edited by Gerald Strang, with the collaboration of and an introduction by Leonard Stein. New York: St. Martin's Press. Reprinted London: Faber and Faber, 1970. ISBN 9780571092765
  • 1969: Arnold Schoenberg: Structural Functions of Harmony , second edition, with corrections. New York: WW Norton; London: Benn. ISBN 9780393020892
  • 1972: Arnold Schoenberg. Models for Beginners in Composition: Syllabus, Music Examples, and Glossary , revised edition, Los Angeles: Belmont Music Publishers.
  • 1975. Arnold Schoenberg: Style and Idea , revised edition. New York: St. Martin's Press.
  • 1975: Arnold Schoenberg: "Five Statements," edited by Leonard Stein. Perspectives of New Music 14 (1): 161-73.
  • 1988: From Pierrot to Marteau: An International Conference and Concert Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Southern California School of Music, March 14-16, 1987 . Los Angeles: Arnold Schoenberg Institute.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Feisst Schoenberg's New World: The American Years Oxford University Press 2011, p. 175
  2. ↑ Tribute to Leonard Stein
  3. ↑ Mark Swed & Chris Pasles Leonard Stein, 87; Schoenberg Institute Chief, Pianist, Teacher , Los Angeles Times June 25, 2004.
  4. ↑ Interview (La Monte Young)
  5. ^ Paula Morgan (2001): Stein, Leonard. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan Publishers, second edition
  6. ^ John Cage At Summerstage Music And Arts Programs Of America, CD-875, 1995
  7. ↑ D. Erb Music For Instruments & Electronic Sounds Nonesuch H-71223, 1969.
  8. ↑ Leonard Stein dies (webjournal)
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Leonard David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist, pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2004
Place of death Burbank, Los Angeles County